STL patch problem

[madsmooth]

I've been using CEGUI for a couple of months using VC6 with STLport 4.6.2 and everything seemed to be working great. I am using CEGUI to add an interface to a plugin for some software that is already built on VC6, but with and STL patch provided by Dinkumware (http://www.dinkumware.com/) that fixes some STL algorithm issues.

In order for my plugin to work completely with the software, I need to build it against the patched STL. When I try to build my plugin against my unpatched build of CEGUI 0.2.0 or 0.3.0, my plugin crashes, or stops the thread that contains any CEGUI features, as soon as I try to subscribeEvent. (I know its not my syntax bcause the same code, ran prefectly before.)

When I try to rebuild the CEGUI Base files with the patched STL, I compiles, but fail on linking:


Linking...
Creating library ../../../../lib/CEGUIBase.lib and object ../../../../lib/CEGUIBase.exp
maketables.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __pctype
maketables.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___mb_cur_max
stlport_vc6_static.lib(fstream.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___pioinfo
../../../../bin/CEGUIBase.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

CEGUI would be the ideal system for my plugin if I could fix this issue. Has anyone ever had this issue or is there anychance you could try a build on the patched STL?

If nothing else, maybe you could release the depedencies built against the patched STL, maybe this will fix the issue. Any insight is appreciated.

[CrazyEddie]

VC6 is now 8 years old, which in software terms is pretty ancient; VC6 support is very touch and go, anything that requires any major work to continue to support this compiler will likely see support for it dropped entirely.

Though I do understand that in your situation VC6 might be a requirement for the plugin to work correctly, which is unfortunate.

Did you ensure you did a full clean and rebuild? I'm not sure what to suggest